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Academy Of Sciences Marie Curie
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The Nobel Prize And Its First Laureates
471 wordsAlfred Nobel was a Swedish industrialist, and inventor. In 1866 he invented dynamite, which made him very wealthy, but he left all of his money to establish a fund for the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is awarded annually for achievements during the previous year, in the categories of physics, chemistry, medicine, or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace. Each winner receives a set amount of prize money, a medal, and a certificate. The Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901, by the ba...
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History Of The Nobel Prize Foundation
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History Of The Nobel Prize Foundation
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His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
1,438 wordsFor as long as space endures And for as long as living beings remain, Until then may I too abide To dispel the misery of the world (The Office of Tibet). He often cites this favorite verse, found in the writings of the renowned eighth century Buddhist saint Shantideva, to explain his greatest source of inspiration. He is the 14 th Dalai Lama. His Holiness Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was born on 6 July 1935 by the name of Lama Dhond...
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Alfred Nobel Family Moved Chemistry
484 wordsAlfred Nobel The inventor of dynamite was a very important roll to take part in. The ultimate inventor of it was a mane named Alfred Nobel. Before dynamite, miners had to use nitrogen to blow holes in rock and other things. However it is too volatile and can explode incredibly easily. Alfred changed all this. Alfred Nobel was born on October 21 st 1833 in Stockholm. He studied their until 1842 when his family moved to St. Petersburg in Russia. Since his father was an influential inventor and ind...
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Nobel Prize Feldman Chemistry
625 wordsIn this paper I will discuss the Nobel Prize as a most popular and considerable nomination today. Also I will analyze Nobel Prize not as an abstract nomination but as an experience of people. So I want to find out about some particular winners while doing this paper. Because Nobel Prize has been created for people who just work persistently and have success doing that. In his 1985 will, Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who made his fortune by inventing and selling dynamite, left to posterit...
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Seamus Heaney Nobel Prize
1,609 wordsIntroduction -Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet and writer was given the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 because of his outstanding contribution to literature. -His contribution reaches far from different poems, prose's, plays, translations and limited editions and booklets (Poetry and prose). Body -Biography -Early Life -Career - 1995 Nobel Prize acceptance speech -Irish Resistance history -Punishment poem -Connection between Biography, Irish Resistance history, and the poem Conclusion -Because of...
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Nobel Peace Prize Part Of China
2,203 wordsResearch Paper November 12, 1999 The 14 th Dalai Lama? Dalai Lama? literally means ocean priest. His vast followers, awestruck by his presence, cast their eyes downward, fall to the ground and weep. They cannot look directly in his eyes out of respect. The Dalai Lama realizes the magnitude of his position, but dismisses the idolatry. His people call him? His Holiness. ? He calls himself a Tibetan who chooses to be a Buddhist monk. He also was leader of a country that Tibetans say is occupied and...
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Nobel Laureate Von Neumann
1,744 wordsGeorge Dantzig was born on August 14, 1914. He studied mathematics at the University of Maryland, receiving his A. B. in 1936. He received an M. A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1937. Dantzig worked as a Junior Statistician in the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1937 to 1939, then, from 1941 to 1946, he was head of the Combat Analysis Branch, U. S. A. F. Headquarters Statistical Control. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkele...
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World War Ii University Of California
1,703 wordsHarold Clayton Urey Papers Background Harold Clayton Urey was a scientist of considerable scope whose discovery of deuterium helped him win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934. Urey also made fundamental contributions to the production of the atomic bomb through his development of the isotope separation processes for the Manhattan Project. In the period following World War II, Urey played an active part in advocating nuclear arms control, in promoting space exploration and in the development o...
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Commission On Human Rights Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
2,829 wordsRunning Head: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN Influential Women Delmy E Gooch Sociology and Philosophy of Gender Summer Evening Introduction There have been many women that have changed and shaped the role of women today. They opened the doors of opportunity for future women and made many contributions to our society. Some of these accomplishments have gone unnoticed. The reason that I chose to discuss the influential women of the past and present was because they are the ones that have given me a future. The...
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2,635 wordsIrene Irene Joliot-Curie IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE Irene Curie was a brilliant dedicated scientist who accomplished many things throughout her life but was overshadowed by those around her throughout her life. She was overshadowed by Nobel laureate parents Maire and Pierre Curie, by co-laureate and husband Jean Frederick Joliot, by her physicist daughter Helene, who was married to Paul Langevin's grandson, and by biochemist son Pierre Joliot. She was also overshadowed by her non-scientist sister Eve De...
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Nobel Peace Prize Martin Luther King Jr
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Nobel Prize Marie Curie
437 wordsMadame Curie Discoverer of Radium Originally named Marja Sklodowska, Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on Nov. 7, 1867. Her father taught high school physics. In 1891 she went to Paris (where she changed her name to Marie) and enrolled in the Sorbonne. Two years later she passed the examination for her degree in physics, ranking in first place. She met Pierre Curie in 1894, and they married in 1895. Marie Curie was interested in the recent discoveries of radiation. Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered X...
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Institute Of Technology Nobel Prize
1,224 wordsMaterial science is the study of the properties of solid materials and how those properties are determined by a material s composition and structure. Most engineers have the primary function of relating the design and production of machinery and components. Materials science and engineers are involved with all aspects of engineering and provide the best material for a large variety of applications. In the workplace materials science and engineers can specify, test, and qualify the materials used...
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1,531 wordsAlfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833. (Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques of blasting rock. Alfred's mother, Andrietta Ahlsell came from a wealthy family. Due to misfortunes in the construction work caused by the loss of some barges of building material, Immanuel Nobel was forced into bankruptcy th...
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